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Publication Date: 1 Aug 2007 | ISBN-10: 0071472320 | ISBN-13: 978-0071472326

Sharpen your Italian grammar with skill-building exercises

If you want to be proficient in Italian, you eventually have to clear the bothersome hurdle of grammar. The best way to conquer this obstacle is through hands-on experience. Covering all facets of Italian grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--Italian Grammar Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics with fun and engaging exercises.

This comprehensive book features:

  • More than 200 drills that demonstrate how the Italian grammar system works
  • An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept
  • The flexibility to learn at your own pace

Topics include:
Adjectives and adverbs * Comparatives and superlatives * Present tense versus past tense * Prepositions * Passive voice * Verbal expressions and constructions * and more

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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary (1 Aug 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071472320
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071472326
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 1.5 x 27.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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Sharpen your Italian grammar with skill-building exercises

If you want to be proficient in Italian, you eventually have to clear the
bothersome hurdle of grammar. The best way to conquer this obstacle is
through hands-on experience. Covering all facets of Italian grammar--from
prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--Italian Grammar
Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics with fun and engaging
exercises.

This comprehensive book features:

More than 200 drills that demonstrate how the Italian grammar system works

An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept
The flexibility to learn at your own pace
Topics include:
Adjectives and adverbs * Comparatives and superlatives * Present tense
versus past tense * Prepositions * Passive voice * Verbal expressions and
constructions * and more

About the Author

Paola Nanni-Tate teaches Italian at Ohio State University and is the author of Italian Verb Drills.

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great! 26 Nov 2007
By Greg
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely fabulous. It contains all aspects of Italian grammar, and it answers the `why is that there?', `What does this mean?' questions. It is very simple to follow as well, and has a lot of exercises to help drill the grammar point's home. There are some grammar books out there that cost around £15.00-25.00 that aren't a patch on this cheap but very detailed book. It answers everything!
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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not for absolute beginners 4 Jun 2009
By chillinb
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is not a book for beginners. Although it clearly explains very basic concepts, each chapter quickly progresses to a level that is (a) not required by a beginner (b) too difficult for a beginner.
As early as Exercise 16 on page 26(there are well over 200 Exercises and the book is 350 pages long exclud answers), the student is required to translate into Italian sentences such as "Please close the large door at the bottom of the stairs". By Exercise 22 on page 37 you need to be happy with the use of past participles in order to translate into Italian sentences such as "She has planted many flowers in the garden". In addition, by this point the text is freely using the imperfect and future tenses. A fairly good vocabulary is also required.
However for those who have more than a rudimentary knowledge, this book is extremely useful, although still lacking in some areas eg when discussing diminutives and pejoratives etc it does not give any guidance as to which ending to use, but then expects you to happily translate a dozen words into the diminutive, pejorative and augmentative in Exercise 17. In addition the book states that the augmentative is usually used in the masculine form even when referring to feminine subjects. In Exercise 17 a whole bundle of feminine words need to be translated and not one of them translates into the masculine.
Despite this, I have learnt a lot and realised that there are many exceptions to the basic rules that I had no knowledge of eg not every word ending in a will change to e in the plural.
I would say that this book is suitable for someone who has studied beginners Italian for at least a year, who is confident with the present tense and past participles and who has a fairly good vocab base.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy It!!! 3 Dec 2008
By Queen Bee
Format:Paperback
I'm studying Italian at undergraduate level from scratch. I was struggling to keep up with what I was being taught and so I bought this book. It's really useful. Everything is clearly explained, there's lots of exercises to help you to practice what you have just learned and the answers to the exercises are in the back of the book. I'd recommend this book to anyone studying Italian academically or even if you just want to learn the language for fun.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! 15 July 2011
By Vita
Format:Paperback
I found this book amazing in its coverage of grammar, and practical exercises. I would classify it as being at an Intermediate level, as, although it deals with beginners' grammar, the exercises require quite a high level of vocabulary. I have been studying Italian for over two years, and that includes browsing the Webster's New World Italian Dictionary, and studying grammar from other book and internet sources, and at this stage I have found 'Italian Grammar Drills' absolutely brilliant in its clarity and exercises. The grammar is easier to focus on, when you have no trouble with the vocabulary. Buy this if you're serious about learning Italian, which, in my view, is the most beautiful language in the world!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book 3 Feb 2010
By Mans96
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is incredible value. I am finding it invaluable to my efforts to learn italian and would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to learn italian grammar. Some of the exercises can be laborious, but in general it is an excellent book. I shall certainly be looking to buy more books in this series
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Not well thought out-badly adapted for the Kindle 27 Aug 2011
By E. WOOLSTON TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Kindle Edition
The very first set of exercises illustrates the problem with this book. It explains nicely how to 'sex' an italian word eg. words ending in ione are generally feminine but the first exercise is to translate a list of words into Italian.
The obvious drill exercise would be for the user to 'sex' a list of Italian words with perhaps, a vocab exercise translating from Italian into English the vocabulary used in the introduction to the exercises (translating into a foreign language from your own is a least effective way to learn grammar points) and only then from English to Italian. The exercise instructions actually say 'Don't worry about putting in the articles' so that they are totally unrelated to the grammar point raised.
To add insult onto injury, many of the words which the reader is asked to translate from Italian to English aren't in the introductory exercise so the only way to find them, if not already known would be to look in a dictionary, nor are they even the Most Frequently Met words which would at least be of some use.

To add to your woes, Kindle readers will frequently be unable to use Find to look for an English word in the vocabulary lists because these tables are actually scanned images rather than text.

The book has been lazily executed. I would have expected a single grammar point and then a set of exercises allowing the user to practice using that point. Vocabulary should be largely Most Frequently Used words introduced gradually so that the user builds up a working vocabulary allowing him to spot words in his reading material as quickly as possible.
The explanations are nice and clear and for this reason it gets 2 stars but as Drill Exercises, the examples are of little use.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential to Perfect Grammar
This book covers from easy to advanced level of exercises. This is very Very helpful if you study post GCSE/A-Level Italian. Read more
Published 5 months ago by batmanz
3.0 out of 5 stars Okay for practice, but watch out for errors
This book should be used as revision, not as a learning tool - or at least, cover each individual subject area first (verbs, prepositions, etc.) and then turn to this book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by M. S. Payne
5.0 out of 5 stars The best Italian Drill Book
Paola Nanni-Tate's books are really good. The grammar explanations are excellent and there are plenty and varied exercises. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Sam Covington
5.0 out of 5 stars Italian Grammar Drills
Very helpful. Not the most exciting of things to do but necessary to get good at a language!
Serenna Davies
Published 22 months ago by Caraline S. Davies
5.0 out of 5 stars Really useful
The first thing to say is - don't expect a small, notebook size package to arrive on the doormat. It's 27 x 21cm - and with packaging, you may well have to pick it up at the local... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2011 by Grandma J.
3.0 out of 5 stars Helpful
This book is really good if you struggle with grammar and patterns like me. It could do with a little more explanation on how the patterns work, but otherwise it's useful.
Published on 29 Nov 2010 by Ms. S. B. Wilkinson
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent practice
This is great practice for those who have learned some Italian but need to review. There have been a couple of instances in which I find that exercises require something that... Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2010 by Suparna Gupta
4.0 out of 5 stars Grammar drills
Good practic but you need to have a basic knowledge of the language otherwise you just wont understand all of it.
Published on 30 Aug 2010 by Thought for the day
4.0 out of 5 stars Working through the minefield of a foreign language!!!
I recently purchased this item hoping that it would help me to come to grips with the intricacies of Italian grammer. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2010 by Cassie
4.0 out of 5 stars NOT For Advanced but still good revision
Despite the fact that I found this book extremely useful for revising prepositions and even passato remoto, it is NOT really for advanced Italian speakers and writers. Read more
Published on 22 May 2010 by Katsam
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